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Learn the core patterns that you need to work effectively with RabbitMQ, and how to layout your exchanges, queues and bindings to best support the patterns! This two-in-one bundle will take you from RabbitMQ apprentice to master in record time.

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Quickly learn how to create online games with Phaser v2.6.2 or the Community Edition. This course is tailored for both the novice and advanced game designers as students or as Workshop Instructors. Use these methods to build 100s of Phaser v2.x.x game as Progressive Web Applications or Single Page Web Applications.

Create a Book

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors. This platform is the combination of two things: a publishing workflow and a storefront. Leanpub is more than the sum of its parts, however – by combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks, it’s something different. Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (You can click a Preview button first if you want!) Once you’ve clicked the Publish button, anyone in the world can instantly buy your ebook from Leanpub, and read it on their computer, tablet, phone or ebook reader. Whenever you want to distribute an update to all your readers, just click the Publish button again. It really is that easy.

When you create a Leanpub book, you get all Leanpub features, including:

Write

Create ebooks in multiple formats with one click from a single source text

You can also write using your own plain text writing tool

You can also upload a book if you prefer your own process to ours

Publish

Publish instantly with one click

Easily update your published book any time

Publish early and serially using our in-progress publishing features

Interact with readers to improve your book and find out what they think

Sell

Instantly put your book up for sale

Earn a royalty of 80% per sale

Customize a great-looking web page to help sell your book

Set your own prices using our amazing variable pricing model

Easily share your royalties with co-authors or good causes

You can also sell your book elsewhere if you want to!

Leanpub puts authors first

Earn an 80% royalty per sale.

Publish to PDF, iPad and Kindle from one manuscript.(we make PDF, EPUB and MOBI versions for you).

Write using your favorite tools. Preview or publish new book versions with one click.

Write on your own computer and sync using Dropbox, GitHub or Bitbucket.

Publish your book early to get reader feedback, and publish new versions as often as you like.

Choose your own minimum and suggested prices. They can be free, or from $4.99 to $500. ($9 to $29 is typical.)

You keep the rights to your book, not us. You can do a deal with a publisher at any time.

Produce a print-ready PDF or InDesign export of your finished book with one click.

Finally, a royalty rate that puts authors first.

When you publish your book with Leanpub, you earn an 80% royalty.

Customer Pays (USD)

$20.00

You Earn

$16.00

Why is this royalty rate important? It means you earn $16.00 on the sale of a $20.00 book. If you worked with a conventional publisher who sold your book for $32.00, you'd typically make just $1.60! (The publisher would usually get about $16.00, and you would get about 10% of that.) With royalty rates this high, people will actually choose to pay more since they can see how much you will earn as an author.

You are free to publish your book elsewhere at the same time as you publish it on Leanpub. However, other platforms may not allow you to publish in two places at once. If you want to try an exclusive service, you can "retire" your book on Leanpub any time, and you can also come back and "unretire" your book if you conclude you were making more money on Leanpub.

You set your own prices using our variable pricing model and you can change them anytime. This means you can instantly change your prices in response to audience feedback or special events. It also means you can increase the price of your book over time, as you add more content, which is a great deal for people who buy your book early on.

If you publish your book on Leanpub, we will not get in the way if you later want to publish with a conventional publisher. In fact, this is a great outcome and it is one of the reasons Leanpub exists. We want unknown writers to be able to publish their books before they're finished, build an audience while they're writing, and then optionally go after a publishing contract. Some publishers may even let you publish your book on Leanpub until you finish it, and then take up the book into their own process when the time is right. That's exactly what happened with this book. (If you're worried that a publisher won't accept a book that's already been published on Leanpub, then you should make sure to ask them before you publish here!)